Kerala based industrialist Sohan Roy led Aries Marine has won the award for “Best Green Maritime consultant” at the International Green Shipping and Technology (GST) Summit held at Athens, Greece.
GST 2019, (as the event is called), is organised to bring together firms and associations involved in integrating Green technology solutions in the shipping industry.
The award is a recognition of Aries Marine’s role as a leading service provider for retrofitting of exhaust gas cleaning and ballast water treatment systems on ships in service.
With a track record of over 500 projects in Ballast water system retrofit studies and over 140 scrubber retrofits, Aries Marine is now one of the world’s leading engineering and project management service providers for these green retrofits. With 50 entities and presence in 15 countries globally, Aries Group have various advanced technologies introduced focusing on marked demand.
With IMO regulations in place, 2019 and 2020 will be defining years for the Ballast water treatment system (BWTS) retrofits with many major ship owners having multiple installation requirements every month. More and more ship owners and charterers are opting for Scrubber retrofits. Aries Greenship solutions is now fully geared to take on the challenging situation, with opening of new offices and increase in manpower, said Gireesh M Menon, Managing Director, Aries Marine.
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